Jaime Luciano Balmes
View AuthorI convinced myself that to doubt everything is to lack the most precise of human reasoning, which is common sense.
Jaime Luciano Balmes
View AuthorFirm will is not the same as energetic will, much less impetuous will.
Jaime Luciano Balmes
View AuthorThe act of reading is like food; the benefit is not in proportion to what is consumed, but to what is digested.
Jaime Luciano Balmes
View AuthorWoe to the people governed by a Power that must think of its own preservation!
Jaime Luciano Balmes
View AuthorReason is a monarch condemned to continually struggle with the rebellious passions.
Edmund Burke
View AuthorThere is a limit to the extent of which tolerance ceases to be a virtue.
Edmund Burke
View AuthorThe tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
Edmund Burke
View AuthorHuman society constitutes an association of the sciences, the arts, virtues, and perfections. Since its ends cannot be achieved in many generations, not only the living participate in this association, but also the dead and those yet to be born.
Edmund Burke
View AuthorThe people who never care about their ancestors will never look towards posterity.
Edmund Burke
View AuthorAbstract freedom, like other simple abstractions, cannot be found.
Edmund Burke
View AuthorFavoritism burdens us more heavily than many millions of debt.
Edmund Burke
View AuthorJealous love lights its torch in the fire of the furies.